by Dean | Nov 19, 2013 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I think it is safe to say that server outages are the most common real world disaster. Just thinking about these issues I can think of a number of server issues recently that would fall into this category for example. Server with single power supply had a failed power...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2013 | Backup, General IT, IT
SBS 2011 Server had a failed power supply. After replacing the power supply and attempting to boot all services started correctly except the DHCP Server. The service would not start and just exited saying to check the event logs. Located in the system logs were the...
by Dean | Nov 8, 2013 | General IT, IT, Virtualisation
After recently cloning a Hyper V machine after another RAID issue I was presented with an issue where none of the guest would start after a reboot. This was strange as before the clone the machines started and ran fine. When attempting to start one of the guests I was...
by Dean | Nov 1, 2013 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT
Just a quick note about this article. While writing this article I experienced an internet outage for a little over 12 hours. Imagine the irony. Disaster 1: Loss of internet This is probably one of the most likely issues to occur this day and age. Give that the...
by Dean | Oct 30, 2013 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT
Disaster recovery in IT is always one of those last minute things that never really gets enough attention. That is until it is to late and you are in the middle of a disaster. So why is this the case? Why do we constantly ignore the very real threat that...
by Dean | Oct 9, 2013 | General IT, Home Media, IT, Tutorial
Now that we have what we want all designed and ready to install we can start the installation of the back end software. Most of the front ends will just work once the server is setup correctly. Software download First things first is to get the software you need...
